martin ewen

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Oh poo. Ya... I was hoping we'd meet up somewhere this summer to do a clean exchange (our postal service has been so wacky--we had a strike and I'm STILL missing some mail) What are you up to this summer? ps. I'm easier to reach via my email: kate.mior@gmail.com ...I RARELY come on P-net...

Hey you! I saw in the program that you were doing Dundas this year and brought your pants... but you weren't there! a pity! Are you in Canada at all this summer?? I still have 'em and wanna get them to you. I haven't forgotten you. xo

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I was due to meet up with my 'team' at Shanghai airport and fly onto Chengdu. There are 8 performers in this ensemble and after 5 hours in Honolulu followed by 10 hours to Seoul Korea followed by a couple more to Shanghai I was ready at last for the social payoff.

My 'team' consisted of a lone Chinese guy holding my name on a card. I recognised him from an event four years previously where at a party organised by our benefactors I had...

LA makes me feel like a anorexic after a hearty meal.
Not that I'm anorexic or would recognise a hearty meal if one was chopped up and stuck piecemeal into my face.
I'm just saying it's all very stimulating but it's also hot and hollow and one day will slip into the sea.

If given the choice between anecdotal olympics on one hand and self indulgent maudlin keening on the other?

Well I've made my choice, it's entirely up to the individual however....

I mentioned it to a therapist I had briefly. The whole, 'risk and redemption' aspect of improvisational performance. He nodded sagely and made a note. So did I mentally because like many things it bleeds across, these principles you employ.

I'm sitting outside a coffee shop looking at the 'pitch'. There's someone playing cello and people have gathered, just a few but there's not space for many more.
This is encouraging because moments ago no-one was performing and the sidewalk...